PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Gustav Fritsch, Luigi Galvani, Max Wertheimer

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Psychology - the scientific study of the causes of behavior; also, the application of the findings of psychological research to the solution of problems. Primary emphasis is on discovering and explaining the causes of behavior. Ultimate goal of psychology is to understand human behaviour. Study all behavioural phenomena that can be observed in non- human animals. They use the non-human animals as models that help us understand the casual events of human behaviour. They discovered that all drugs having the potential for addiction is involved in pleasurable reaction (warmth, food, sexual contact) Comparative psychology - the branch of psychology that studies the behaviours of a variety of organisms in an attempt to understand the adaptive and functional significance of the behaviours and their relation to evolution. Behaviour analysis - branch of psychology that studies the effect of the environment on behaviour - primarily the effects of the consequences of behaviours on the behaviours themselves.

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